The Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
Tone 5 / Second Sunday of Lent
Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 5, on 10: Octoechos 6; Hierarch 4 (What hymns of praise – from the Triodion); G: Hierarch (Thrice-blessed saint); N: Sunday
Dogmatic in the tone of the week.
Entry; O
Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of
the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.
Aposticha: Octoechos; G:
Hierarch (Thy tongue, watchful in
teaching); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O
unwedded Virgin).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.
Matins: God is the Lord,
Tone 5; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Hierarch (Light of Orthodoxy); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 8 (O Good One, Who for our sake wast born of
the Virgin).
After each Kathisma:
Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Blessed are the blameless; Evlogitaria (The assembly of
angels was amazed).
Hypakoe; Hymns of Ascent; and
Prokimenon, Tone 5.
Matins Gospel 5, Luke 24:12-35 (§113).
Having beheld the Resurrection; Psalm 50; G: The
doors of repentance; N: Guide me in
the paths of salvation; Have mercy on me, O God; When I think of the multitude of evil things I have done. Save, O God, Thy people.
Canon: Resurrection 4 Glory to Thy Holy Resurrection, O
Lord.
Triodion (first
canon) 4 Have
mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Triodion (canon of the Saint) 6 Holy
Hierarch, Father Gregory, pray to God for us.
Irmos
of the Resurrectional Canon, Tone 5.
Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (The
season of the virtues) and Sessional hymn of the Triodion (O wise Gregory); N: Theotokion (Be swift to receive our prayers, O Lady).
After Ode 6, Kontakion (O
sacred and divine organ of wisdom) and Ikos of the Hierarch.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection;
G: Hierarch (Rejoice, glory of the
fathers); N: Theotokion in the Triodion (O Lady, Queen of all).
Praises, Tone 5, on 9:
Octoechos 5; Triodion 4 (sticheron: In
the world thou hast lived a life of blessedness; verse: The mouth of the righteous; sticheron: O blessed saint; verse: Thy priests shall be clothed with
righteousness; sticheron: The glory
of thy blameless life; verse: Arise,
O Lord my God; sticheron: In this
season of abstinence); G: Triodion (In
this season of abstinence); N: Most
blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Today is
salvation; the two remaining Litanies and
Resurrectional Dismissal; after
the Dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed by First Hour.
Hours:
Troparion: Resurrection; G: Hierarch; Kontakion: Triodion and Hierarch,
alternating.
Liturgy of St. Basil the Great: Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos 6; Hierarch 4, from Ode
3.
After the entrance: In a
In a
In a
Prokimenon, Tone 5: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep. & Tone 1: My mouth shall speak wisdom.
Epistle: Heb. 1:10-2:3
(§304); Heb. 7:26-8:2 (§318).
Alleluia,
Tone 5 & Tone 2 (Tone of the week, and the Hierarch).
Gospel: Mark 2:1-12 (§7);
John 10:9-16 (§36).
Instead of It is truly meet: All creation Rejoiceth.
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & In everlasting remembrance shall the
righteous be. Resurrectional Dismissal.
Sunday Evening Vespers: As on Cheesefare Sunday.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 5, on 10: Penitential Stichera from the Octoechos 4 (I cease not from sin – Triodion, p.
186); Triodion 3 (I have sinned against
Thee countless times); Saint 3 (O
divinely wise father Gerasimus – Venerable Gerasimus of the Jordan, March 4);
G/N: Theotokion in the Menaion (Troubled
and in grief).
Entry; O Gladsome Light; Great Prokimenon, Tone 8: Turn not Thy countenance away from Thy servant.
During the final repetition
of the prokimenon, the priest closes the Royal Doors, removes his phelonion and
puts on a dark epitrachilion, and goes out to the Ambon. All the other
liturgical covers are likewise changed.
Vouchsafe, O Lord.
Then the Litany, Let us complete our evening prayer unto the
Lord, with the choir singing the responses according to the penitential
Lenten melody.
Aposticha: Triodion (Stichera
and verses, beginning with Throwing off
from my unruly mind), G/N: Theotokion in the Triodion (The heavenly powers praise thee).
Now lettest Thou Thy servant.
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin (with a great
prostration); G: O Baptizer of Christ
(with a great prostration): N: Plead in
our behalf (great prostration); Beneath
thy compassion (without a prostration).
Lord, have mercy x40; G/N: More Honorable. In the name of the Lord, father bless. Priest:
He that is is
blessed. Reader: O Heavenly King,
strengthen Orthodox Christians.
Then the priest says the
prayer of St. Ephrem with 3 prostrations, then the Dismissal.